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List entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name:CHURCH OF ST PETER

List entry Number:1067994

Location

CHURCH OF ST PETER, MANCHESTER ROADCHURCH OF ST PETER, STOCKPORT ROAD

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County

District

District Type

Parish

Tameside

Metropolitan Authority

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade:II*

Date first listed: 12-Jan-1967

Date of most recent amendment:14-Jul-1987

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UID:212664

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History

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Details

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE MANCHESTER ROAD
SJ 99 NW (south side)

4/16 Church of
12/01/67 St. Peter

G.V. II*

Church. 1821-24. By F. Goodwin for the Church Commissioners.
Ashlar with slate roof. 3-sided gallery plan with west tower
and a small canted vestry taking the form of a chancel.
Gothic revival. 7-bay nave with weathered plinth and coped
parapet. Each bay has a 3-light transomed window with
Perpendicular tracery and hoodmould. The fine tracery is pre-
fabricated in cast iron which is painted to imitate stone.
Weathered buttresses (diagonal at corners) have crocketed
pinnacles. The east end has a rose window above the vestry
and bold octagonal pinnacled piers define the nave and
'aisles'(although there are not actually any aisles).
Impressive 3-stage tower with set-back buttresses which turn
to octagonal corner piers at the upper stages and are topped
by pinnacles, door in first stage, 3-light west window,
clock faces below gablets, tall paired lancet belfry
openings and elaborate arcaded parapet.
IINTERIOR: quatrefoil cast-iron columns support the gallery
which has an arcaded parapet and has been partitioned off
beneath the west end in C20. Gallery benches mostly survive.
Tall pannelled dado to side walls beneath gallery. Panelled
east wall, the panelling apparently coming from Manchester
Cathedral. Panelled ceiling which turns to a ribbed vault
above the gallery. Stone font. Organ has elaborate case.
Stained glass to many windows, east window by Evans of
Shrewsbury.
A particularly imposing and elaborate example of a Commissioner's
Church.

Listing NGR: SJ9306798585

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